Results for: dead to me
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Victoria Monét’s “Jaguar II” Is Fighting for Queer R&B’s Life
Very few have clawed their way to the status of being R&B’s up and coming It Girl, let alone while crooning about a preference for short fingernails or cracking a joke that “it’s a bisexual blunt, it can go both ways.”
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Top 10 Fictional Bands
Because sometimes fictional bands are better than real bands.
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I Saw MUNA and boygenius and All I Got Was a Surge of Queer Joy
I finally understood that sacred feeling one can get in a religious service.
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The Double Lives of Queer Church Musicians
Many of my colleagues and I have left church music leadership entirely.
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Taylor Swift’s Red (Emily Dickinson’s Version)
I never met a straight person who pines like these two!
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58 Gay Pop Icons and Rising Stars
Gay pop is a dynamic, enormous genre of music that has defined our community’s parties and culture for years. Here are just some of our favorite, most iconic, and exciting gay pop artists.
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23 of the Best Songs by Queer Artists in 2021
This was a great year for LGBTQ music and my gay little heart.
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Every James Bond Theme Song, Ranked by Their Lesbian Energy
“I love a ballad that reaches it’s climax with a big note. Lesbians known all there is to know about reaching a climax so there ya have it.”
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Playlist: Western Classic Music to Soothe the Soul for the Difficult Weeks Ahead
Friends, there is barely a month until the US election. Oh, certainly there is some despair and some grief, but most of all this playlist aims to soothe. I hope you find some solace in these tunes, like I do.
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Playlist: My Favorite Anti-Cop, Pro-Black Songs for the Revolution
These past few weeks I’ve been drawn to music that is anti-cop, anti-establishment, and/or pro-black. These songs span genre but mostly lie somewhere between punk and hip hop. They embody either my rage or my love for the unwavering strength, resilience, and spirit of black people.
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Every Fiona Apple Song, Ranked by Existential Despair
“Every single verse of this is like getting clocked in the side of the head with a Yankee candle.”
(Now including new, fresh rankings from “Fetch the Bolt Cutters”!)
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Six Songs You Love That Are Actually About Being Trans
I’m not trying to win you over to my interpretation of the lyrics of any of these songs; but I am inviting you to explore the world within each of them. Looking at songs we love through a trans lens can teach us new things about our gender.
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VIDEO PLAYLIST: These Bangers from Rhythm + Flow’s Lesbian Rapper Londynn B
Londynn B is a lesbian Cardi B by way of Grace Jones — all charisma, swagger, and sex. With the bars to back it up.
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Queer Your Ears November 2019: New Music From Queer & Trans Artists
Whether you’re going all in on cuffing season, hunkering down to hibernate, or reliving your goth phase in this leather jacket weather, we’ve got tunes for you.
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Queer Your Ears: The 50 Best Albums Of The 2010s By Queer & Trans Musicians
The 2010s was an incredibly gay decade in music. Queer and trans musicians gained more visibility and success than ever before over the last 10 years! Here are the best 50 albums of the decade, according to me.
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Were We Ever So Young: A Retro High School Deep Dive with Tegan and Sara
Inspired by their vulnerability and the powerful throwback energy of high-school-age Sara and Tegan, we’ve cracked open our own high school diaries to show you our deepest, darkest, gayest secrets and send a little love and perspective back through time on who we’ve been.
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The Harassment of Young M.A and Including Black Butches When We Talk About Violence
Jokes that make violence appear innocuous is how we get dead.
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10 Times Lady Gaga Murdered Us On Live Television, For Example At the 2019 Oscars Last Night
Nobody plays a piano on a stage like Lady Gaga plays a piano on a stage!
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Stories About Beyoncé That Are Really About the First Girl I Ever Loved
“I never could explain why my heart pounded when her soft hands reached out for mine. Why it felt like I was the only girl in the world, singing with her at the top of my lungs. The way my eyes would nervously glance down at her chest in that purple lace bra and white tank top. Until I could.”
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Playlist: It Was The Summer of ’99
“I was at the mall when it happened.”